The fashion of architecture / Bradley Quinn.
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TextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2003.Description: 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmISBN: - 1859737579 (Paper)
- 9781859737576 (Paper)
- 746.9 QUI
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 746.9 QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100576330 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Architecture is making its presence felt in cutting-edge fashion. The pliable metals, membrane structures, lightweight glasses and plastics used in building construction are creeping onto the catwalk. As they do so, their impact on recent textile developments has produced fabrics that enable clothing to act as individual climate-controlled environments that can exchange information with embedded sensors, resulting in wearable 'dwellings' that act as both shelter and clothing. At the same time, architects are borrowing the techniques of pleating, stapling, cutting and draping from traditional tailoring to design buildings that are flexible, interactive, inflatable and even portable.
Although the relationship between architecture and fashion was recognized more than a century ago, the connection between them has rarely been explored by historians, designers or practicing architects. The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakubo to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architecture's role in the formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fashioning the metropolis -- Mapping fashion space -- Dressing the void -- Urban nomads -- Designing, dwelling, thinking : Hussein Chalayan -- Fashioning architecture and art -- Intimate architecture : Lucy Orta\'s social structures -- Fashion photography -- Fluid form.
The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind.
As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakuboto to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architecture\'s role in the formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.--Jacket.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Fashioning Architecture and Art
- Intimate Architecture: Fashion and the Interior
- Fashioning Photography
- Memory and Tragedy
- 2 Mapping Fashion Space
- Shopping for Architecture
- Virtual Re[tail]ity
- 3 Shrinking Space
- Urban Radar
- Place and Non-place
- 4 Mining the Void
- Reconstruction
- Deconstruction
- Unconstruction
- 5 Urban Nomads
- Archigram
- Yeohlee
- Final Home
- Hussein Chalayan
- C P Company
- 6 Refuge
- Refuge Wear
- Body Architecture
- Nexus Architecture
- Mobile Villages
- Modular Architecture
- Intervention
- Fluid Architecture
- 7 Fluid Form
- The Blob
- The Fold
- Twisting
- Blurring
- Masking and Revealing
- Notes
- List of CreditsSelect
- Bibliography
- Index